We meet once a month to learn new crafting skills, such as watercolours, photography, bead work, making Christmas decorations, jewellery making, painting on slates and stones. Great fun and we have a good laugh at our successes and our failures. And of course there is always delicious home-made cake on hand to keep us going.

Enjoying Time Together and Making New Friends

We Made It All

There are photos of our recent show/competition in the Photo Gallery. Beautiful and delicious are the words to describe the entries, single blooms, bouquets in baskets, garden greenery, jams, jellies and cakes.... biscuits, tea loaves.... looking at the prizes, you want to be the one to do the tasting, but the judge's job is not an easy one. It was great to have a record number of entries and to enjoy the enthusiasm generated by the event... admiring what fellow members have created and pleased with our own work as well. Thanks to everyone... Read more

Garden under the Long Mynd

On June 15th, members enjoyed a warm afternoon in a 2.5 acre garden at Prolley Moor, Wentnor, tucked under the edge of the Long Mynd. On an almost hot day in June, the garden seems overwhelmingly BLOOMING, but we were reminded that the garden is at a considerable elevation and that the guardian clusters of large trees are there to shelter the plants from Long Mynd winds.

There is a stunning pond, fed from a stream that runs down from the hillside. A great place to sit and rest with a cup of tea.

Donation to Midlands Air Ambulance

Every meeting we collect loose change in a "Jerusalem Jar". This year we have collected £150 to donate to the Midlands Air Ambulance. Margaret (our president) is presenting a cheque to Maria Jones, a representative from Midlands Air Ambulance.

In 2017 we are going to support Dementia UK

Craft Competition!! October 2016

If you look at the Photo Gallery, you will see photos taken at the October 2016 W.I. Craft Competition. It was a terrific competition, with over a hundred entries from fourteen of our members.

Here are the winners and congratulations to them!! and to everyone who contributed to the success of this biennial event.

Elizabeth Hill – Rose Bowl – Silver Challenge Cup – first place and Best in Show!

Christmas Fair Success

What a brilliant occasion! We held our first ever Christmas Fair on Saturday 28 November at Nesscliffe Village Hall. We needed to raise funds to cover our costs and for speaker fees at future meetings and just over a year ago we started makings things to sell. We also wanted the rest of our local community involved so invited Nesscliffe School, Nesscliffe Youth Club, and many other individuals and groups to have a stall. The Nesscliffe Hall Committee and Short Mat Bowling Club provided refreshments.

Glansevern Gardens

Great Ness WI celebrated their 90th birthday by enjoying a walk through the delightful Glansevern Gardens in August 2015. The flower beds were filled with many colourful and varied plants. There was a large lake and lots of majestic and interesting trees. We were lucky with the weather as it was warm and sunny, walking around was a pleasure. Some of us walked down to the River Severn to sit in the bird hide and look out for kingfishers. Unfortunately we didn't see any but there was a lovely scene a few hundred yards further down stream of a... Read more

The WI Centennial Fair

A very sleepy group of 4 members and 1 guest from Great Ness WI left Abbey Foregate car park at 7am on one of the two coaches going to Harrogate on Saturday 5 September 2015. We arrived at the Harrogate Conference Centre, three and a half hours later along with hundreds of other WI members from all over the country. We feasted our eyes, stimulated our imaginations and emptied our pockets going through the four large halls. They were full of stands for Gifts & Fashions; Food & Baking; Home, Gardening & Lifestyle and Make it... Read more

Jerusalem Jam Jar benefits the Shrewsbury Hospice

Great Ness W.I. President,Mrs Margaret Anderson presented a cheque to Mrs.Joan Roberts, Vice-President of the West Shrewsbury Hospice Support Group at one of our recent meetings. The donation was raised through the "Jerusalem Jam Jar", an easy way to save some pennies at each of our meetings, to support a local charity. Members contribute small amounts at meeting teas and it all adds up! Each year, we pick a new local charity and start the Jerusalem Jam Jar going again. Building Jerusalem, small step by small step, in our green and... Read more

NAPPY CAKES???

Our meeting had an air of mystery when the title of the presentation was "Nappy Cakes". It all sounded very strange, but I imagine that innovative and sensible ideas that are also a great deal of useful fun should sound strange, since we haven't dreamed up the ideas ourselves!

So, what ARE nappy cakes? Our speaker for the evening was Alexandra Mellor and this is how she describes "Nappy Cakes".